About this episode
President-elect Joe Biden’s names his administration’s top health officials. The toll the pandemic has taken on nursing home employees. And an inauguration unlike any other. Read more: Health reporter Amy Goldstein examines the president-elect’s picks for top health officials , including the unorthodox choice of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services . The pandemic has taken a heavy toll on nursing home workers . “The problem is that there have been a number of nursing home employees who have either quit or fallen ill or died,” says business reporter Will Englund. “And in a business that has a traditional or a chronic problem with short staffing, that's gotten even much worse.”National political reporter Matt Viser on what you need to know about Joe Biden’s inauguration. Today is the 40th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. Listen to a previous episode , where arts reporters Geoff Edgers revisits his last album. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer